Remove Wrong Firefox Auto-suggest text February 23, 2007

I found the solution to another long standing gripe I had with Firefox – if you mistype a url once in the url bar, the ‘fox remembers it for a long long time. So I’d type “ubintu” once, and then, each time I type “ubu”, firefox autocompletes the url with “ubintu….” which is very annoying.

Lifehacker tells me that I delete those annoying typos using Shift+Delete. So the next time the bugger pops up, I will delete ubintu.wordpress.com! It also works for form text entry fields.

I am sure more than a few readers would be as glad as I was when I read about this🙂

SHIFT-DELETE, eh? I’d been wondering how to do this for a long time — especially for the auto-completes/suggestions that pop up for text-entry fields and username fields. I’m using Firefox on a Mac, not Ubuntu, but I tried your tip out anyway and — it works!